Audio Sample
Lawrence Durrell
Balthazar
Read by Nigel Anthony
abridged
The politics of love, the intrigues of desire … love and murder, moved obscurely in the dark corners of Alexandria’s streets and squares, brothels and drawing-rooms – moved like a great congress of eels in the slime of plot and counter-plot…’ In Balthazar, the second volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the story and the characters come more clearly into focus. Darley, the reflective Englishman, receives from Balthazar, the pathologist, a mass of notes which attempt to explain what really happened between the tempestuous Justine, her husband Nessim, Clea the artist, Pursewarden the writer; new figures emerge and play key roles. Balthazar, in his ‘Interlinear’, explains and warns.
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3 CDs
Running Time: 3 h 56 m
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ISBN: 978-962-634-046-2 Digital ISBN: 978-962-954-586-4 Cat. no.: NA304612 Download size: 57 MB BISAC: FIC000000 Released: April 2000 -
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